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Terrorist groups like al qaeda would love to get their hands on nuclear weapons. right now, at least nine nations can build them, but there's a movement in full force to eliminate all nuclears. it's called global zero, and the hope is to live in a world without the threat of nukes. film makers and leaders around the world are using a documentary to deliver their message. it's called "countdown to zero." take a look. >> highly mixed uranium is now within the grat. of mm countries. >> we've got to ensure that never once do terrorists succeed in detonating a nuclear weapon. >> all of the forces o...

Various groups have been focused on acquiring weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons. >> all the black market seizures i'm aware of were caught. >> at a russian naval ways in the early 1990s potatoes were guarded better. >> united states launched a rocket to study the northern lights. somebody forgot to pass word on it. the russians opened up the command and control launch codes, the button, put it on the desk and said, we're under attack. >> that's part of "countdown to zero" which traces the history of the nuclear proliferation and claims we have entered a second nuclear ...

Fortunately, yeltsin wasn't drunk and didn't believe what the military was telling him. he said, there must be some mistake. that that clip was from the new documentary, "countdown to zero" which makes a strong case against countries including ours having nuclear weapons and that makes a good case that being against nuclear weapons isn't just for hippies anymore. take a look at who appears in the film as supporting the notion of a nuclear-free world. yes, jimmy carter but the late robert mcnamara, pervez musharraf, tony blair, mikhail gorbachev, james baker iii and the late ronald reagan from ...

Nuclear material, gets it delivered to the senate hearing room. can you just explain that? >> it's a scary concept. but he was -- they were doing senate hearings. he was like, okay. i don't believe it. prove it. and they literally went off -- it's something that certain colleges do in the graduate programs. they ask them to build a nuclear bomb based% what they find in the internet. >> all commercially available components. >> all commercially available. they did it, built it, minus the fissile material, of course, and they brought it into the senate. i think everyone said, this is a problem. ...

Sending out an electromagnetic force that would fry all electronics, radar, computers, in the country to be attacked, followed by an onslaught of nuclear weapons. and for the first time in the nuclear age, the russians actually opened up the nuclear football. they went to president yeltsin and opened up the command and control launch codes, the button, put it on the desk and said, we're under attack. fortunately, yeltsin wasn't drunk and didn't believe what the military was telling him. he said, there must be some mistake. >> that was from the new documentary, "countdown to zero" which makes a...